For whatever reason there has been minimal blooming this month but a lot of growth with plantlets I produced from flower stalks from some “different” blooms. First I have the 7 petal Mauna Loa (Eyerdom) bloom. I produced a plantlet from that stalk. Not that I am expecting a plant that has 6 or 7 petal […]

In the posts of October and November I discussed a sport of Yukako. To review that blog, just click here. I have successfully produced a plant from the parent bloom stalk, using tissue culture techniques. The resulting plant and flowers are true to the parent in both color, form and chimeraism. The F1 flower […]

The African violet chimera Erin, is a single blue flower with wide white stripes. It has plain foliage and is considered a standard plant in size. This plant when mature and full of flowers is very impressive indeed. I have an image of it in my gallery and gives you an idea what it looks […]

To the right is a normal Erin Chimera violet bloom. Using tissue culture methods I took the flower stalk of Erin and produced ten plants. Seven were perfect copies of Erin, but one was pure white (left) one was purple (center) and one was a white flower with a purple center . This nicely demonstrates […]